Jorge Jose Alonso Ygea

This note clarifies the notation of R introduced in La continuidad del aparecer: Ontología dinámica de la responsabilidad. The previous use of R+/R− has been shown to invite normative interpretations (good/bad) that are not intended by the framework. I propose replacing this notation with operational regimes of openness—expressed as R↑ / R↓ or, equivalently, expansion / restriction—in order to preserve the non-normative, structural character of the distinction. The change does not alter the ontology; it improves its legibility by making explicit that the distinction concerns differences in viability, reversibility, and articulability of configurations within a relational field. Responsibility is thereby understood as a structural non-indifference to how configurations affect the field’s capacity to sustain openness.

This paper proposes a reinterpretation of responsibility through a dynamic ontology of appearing. Against substantialist approaches that understand action as an effect produced by previously constituted subjects, it argues that social reality emerges from relational configurations in continuous processes of stabilization and transformation. On this basis, responsibility is not conceived as mere retrospective attribution, but as practical sensitivity to variations within a field and as the capacity to intervene in the conditions that sustain a situation’s continuity. Responsible action does not only generate effects; it also reshapes the frameworks that make those effects possible. The result is a processual and non-normative account of responsibility, useful for rethinking agency, presence and action under conditions of contemporary complexity. Este trabajo propone una reinterpretación de la responsabilidad desde una ontología dinámica del aparecer. Frente a los enfoques sustancialistas que conciben la acción como efecto producido por sujetos previamente constituidos, se sostiene que la realidad social emerge de configuraciones relacionales en continuo proceso de estabilización y transformación. Sobre esta base, la responsabilidad no se entiende como mera imputación retrospectiva, sino como sensibilidad práctica ante las variaciones del campo y capacidad de intervención en las condiciones de continuidad de una situación. La acción responsable no solo produce efectos, sino que modifica los marcos que hacen posibles dichos efectos. El resultado es una concepción procesual y no normativa de la responsabilidad, útil para repensar la agencia, la presencia y la acción en contextos contemporáneos de alta complejidad.

This paper proposes a reinterpretation of responsibility through a dynamic ontology of appearing. Against substantialist approaches that understand action as an effect produced by previously constituted subjects, it argues that social reality emerges from relational configurations in continuous processes of stabilization and transformation. On this basis, responsibility is not conceived as mere retrospective attribution, but as practical sensitivity to variations within a field and as the capacity to intervene in the conditions that sustain a situation’s continuity. Responsible action does not only generate effects; it also reshapes the frameworks that make those effects possible. The result is a processual and non-normative account of responsibility, useful for rethinking agency, presence and action under conditions of contemporary complexity.

Este texto propone eliminar la noción de posibilidad como reserva ontológica (potencia o virtualidad). Sostiene que lo no aparecido no posee estatuto ontológico alguno, y que solo las configuraciones que alcanzan consistencia operativa en un campo dinámico pueden sostenerse como siendo. A partir de este desplazamiento, se redefine la responsabilidad como no indiferencia respecto de las condiciones de articulación del propio campo. Se propone una noción de responsabilidad estructural como no indiferencia operativa, sin recurrir a normas ni sujetos.